Obama and Biden have now both effectively called John McCain a coward for talking smack about Obama behind his back but being afraid to say any of it to his face. And look what kind of low-rate punk answer Sen. McCain provided on this issue to ABC’s Charlie Gibson:
Obama had noted that McCain didn’t raise the issue “to my face” in their debate on Tuesday, but McCain told Gibson he did not raise the Ayers argument during the debate because “it didn’t come up in the flow of conversation.”
You go around telling anyone that will listen that you are going to ‘take the gloves off’ and hand Obama’s head to him in the debate, but when the time comes you don’t even ask him for his lunch money? Everywhere in the world that is known as talking big and punking out.
Obama called him on it yesterday and Biden called him on it today:
“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube … John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” Biden said this morning. “In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”
John McCain’s supposed to be a soldier, for chrissakes, not a big-talking weakling. And his excuse?
MCCAIN: Again, two things I’ve never been accused of lacking. And one is passion, and the other is courage. I mean, I can accept a lot of the other criticisms. It didn’t come up in the flow of the conversation. But it did come up, and I pointed out that he asked for $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in his hometown of Chicago.
Never been accused of lacking courage? Everyone and his brother and cousin are accusing you of lacking courage. Your opponents are challenging your shrunken, frightened manhood as we speak. Your cowardice is now part of the national discussion and it’s poised to be the greater part of your legacy…along with the your rep for running a nastier campaign than Lee Atwater ever had to apologize for.
An overhead projector? You think going after Obama over an overhead projector makes you a man? After all the bloodshed you promised? Your own brown-shirted supporters are begging and pleading with you to be a man, and you’ve got nothing. Are you afraid that Joe Biden is going to punch you in your lying mouth? Is that the problem? Lil’ Joey’ll invite you down to the Senate gym and make you put on the boxing gloves?
Seriously. All this manly posturing by John McCain is disgraceful. He can’t back any of it up. He can’t even look his opponent in the eye. Barack Obama never posed with all that macho stuff. The economy is going to hell, and John McCain wants to talk about William Ayers. Just not to Barack Obama’s face.
